Chris"om (?), n. [See Chrism.]
1.
A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
[Obs.]
2.
A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
[Obs.]
Blount.
© Webster 1913.